Matthew 18:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 6 And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off and throw it away from you; it is better (more profitable and wholesome) for you to enter life maimed or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into everlasting fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

Common English Bible

⁸ If your hand or your foot causes you to fall into sin, chop it off and throw it away. It’s better to enter into life crippled or lame than to be thrown into the eternal fire with two hands or two feet.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ So if your hand or your foot leads you to sin, cut it off and cast it away from you. It is better for you to enter into life disabled or lame, than to be sent into eternal fire having two hands or two feet.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.

Matthew 18:8 Cross References

Isaiah 30:22

0 And the Lord shall make the glory of his voice to be heard, and shall shew the terror of his arm, in the threatening of wrath, and the dame of devouring fire: he shall crush to pieces with whirlwind, and hailstones.

Isaiah 33:14

2 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.

Ezekiel 18:31

He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.

Matthew 17:27

And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.

Matthew 25:41

Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:

Matthew 25:46

And the disciples seeing it, had indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste?

Luke 14:33

And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost?

Luke 16:24

AND he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come: but woe to him through whom they come.

Romans 13:12

For none of us liveth to himself; and no man dieth to himself.

Revelation 14:10

9 And the angel thrust in his sharp sickle into the earth, and gathered the vineyard of the earth, and cast it into the great press of the wrath of God:

Revelation 20:15

And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come, and I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

Revelation 21:8

7 And he measured the wall thereof an hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel.